Revelation 20:9
And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
KJV
καὶ ἀνέβησαν ἐπὶ τὸ πλάτος τῆς γῆς καὶ ἐκύκλευσαν τὴν παρεμβολὴν τῶν ἁγίων καὶ τὴν πόλιν τὴν ἠγαπημένην. καὶ κατέβη πῦρ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ κατέφαγεν αὐτούς·
Greek NT
Et descendit ignis a Deo de cælo, et devoravit eos : et diabolus, qui seducebat eos, missus est in stagnum ignis, et sulphuris, ubi et bestia
Vulgate
And they went up over the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down out of heaven, and devoured them.
ASV
And there came down fire from God out of heaven and devoured them: and the devil, who seduced them, was cast into the pool of fire and brimstone, where both the beast
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ἐκύκλευσαν — SBLGNT
- ἐκύκλευσαν — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐκύκλωσαν — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
- ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ — SBLGNT
- ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ — Tregelles
- ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§677The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection.578 The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God's victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven.579 God's t…
Chapter 8.—Of the Binding and Loosing of the Devil. “After that,” says John, “he must be loosed a little season.” If the binding and shutting up of the devil means his being made unable to seduce the Church, must his loosing be the recovery of this ability? By no means. For the Church predestined and elected before the foundation of the world, the Church of which it is said, “T…
Cross-references
- 1Sam 23:26 — And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men roun
- 2Kgs 1:10 — And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him
- 2Thess 1:8 — In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
- Dan 7:22 — Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
- Exod 9:23 — And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
- Ezek 38:9 — Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
- Ezek 38:16 — And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be s
- Ezek 38:22 — And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire,
- Ezek 39:6 — And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
- Isa 8:7 — Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all
- Isa 37:36 — Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
- Isa 51:13 — And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he we
- Job 38:18 — Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.
- Lev 10:2 — And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
- Luke 17:29 — But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
- Num 11:1 — And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts
- Num 16:35 — And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
- Ps 48:1 — Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
- Ps 97:3 — A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
- Ps 106:18 — And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
- Ps 125:1 — They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
- Rev 11:5 — And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
- Rev 13:13 — And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
- Rev 13:13 — And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
- Zeph 3:19 — Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put